Amazon Q Developer vs Kiro vs GitHub Copilot vs Cursor
A side-by-side look at scores, pricing and features — with RECATOOLS' ASEAN-aware verdict for each.
Amazon Q Developer
AWS's AI coding assistant, closed to new users and sunsetting in 2027
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Kiro
AWS's spec-driven agentic IDE — plans before it codes
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GitHub Copilot
GitHub's coding assistant and agents, now billed in AI Credits
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Cursor
AI code editor and coding agents, now sold inside The X Subscription
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| RECATOOLS Score | 6.5 / 10 | 7.4 / 10 | 8.3 / 10 | 8.6 / 10 |
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| Pricing | Subscription | Freemium | Freemium | Freemium |
| Free tier | Closed to new users since 15 May 2026; existing Builder ID users keep 50 agentic requests/mo and 1,000 lines/mo of Java upgrades | Free tier: 50 credits a month with open-weight models and Claude Sonnet 4.5 (rate-limited); not available in Enterprise or GovCloud | Copilot Free: 2,000 inline suggestions a month plus limited chat and agent usage, no card required; free Student plan for verified students | Free plan: limited agent and Chat requests and a starter allowance for Cursor's coding agents, no card listed |
| Paid from | Pro $19/user/mo, existing subscriptions only; new sign-ups closed 15 May 2026, EOS 30 Apr 2027 | From $20/user/mo (Pro, 1,000 credits); add-on credits $0.04 each | $10/month (Pro, 1,500 AI Credits); Business $19 and Enterprise $39 per seat a month | $8/month (Plus, Grok models only), Premium $30, Super $100, Ultra $200 |
| Has API | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Open source | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Free to use | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Users | — | — | 4.7m+ paid subscribers | 1m+ developers |
| Founded | 2024 | 2025 | 2021 | 2023 |
| Maker | Amazon (Amazon Web Services, Inc.) | Amazon Web Services | GitHub, Inc. | SpaceX |
| Verdict | Amazon Q Developer is no longer something to adopt: AWS closed it to new sign-ups in May 2026 and ends the IDE plugins and paid subscriptions on 30 April 2027, steering developers to Kiro, where the newest coding models... |
Kiro's spec-first approach — requirements, design and tasks before any code — is a genuine answer to the mess fast AI coding can leave behind, and it has grown quickly since general availability in November 2025: a CLI,... |
For teams already on GitHub, Copilot is still the lowest-friction way to add AI to the whole workflow: completions in almost every major editor, agents that work from issues and open pull requests, reviews on github.com,... |
Cursor remains one of the strongest AI editors: agents that work across a whole codebase, cloud agents and automations, and Bugbot reviews, with Grok and Composer models included in a weekly allowance. The October 2026 m... |
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Comparisons cover up to 4 tools. Scores are RECATOOLS editorial assessments; verify current pricing on each vendor's site.